Brent Vine | Latin paene ‘almost’ and Related (?) Forms

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

PIES grad sem will meet for Week 9 on May 27 between 6-8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh As usual, the seminar will be accompanied by food and drinks.

Alex Roy | “Don’t (do) worry”: Support verbs and phraseological templates in Epic Sanskrit

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

For our final Grad Sem of the year, we will meet on Tuesday, June 3, from 6-8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/9055112669 This week, we welcome our very own Alex Roy, presenting: "Don’t (do) worry”: Support verbs and phraseological templates in Epic Sanskrit. As usual, the seminar will be accompanied...

Aidan Holmgren | Ring-Composition in Lower Land Luwian

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

We will start this year's iteration of grad sem with a meeting Monday September 29, 2025 from 6-8pm in Dodd 248. Aidan Holmgren will start us off with a presentation tilted "Ring-Composition in Lower Land Luwian". As usual, the seminar will be accompanied by food and drinks.

David Inman | Modeling Obstruent Evolution

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

We will be meeting for Week 6 on Monday, 3rd November between 6-8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh This week, we are happy to welcome David Inman, Assistant Professor of Language Science at UC Irvine, who will be giving a talk titled "Modeling Obstruent Evolution". David Inman has kindly shared...

Jahnavi Narkar | Reverse-engineering PIE stops

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

We will be meeting for Week 7 on Monday, November 10 between 6–8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh This week, we will have two presentations: Jahnavi Narkar from Linguistics, whose talk will be titled "Reverse-engineering PIE stops". Muhammad Rehan will be giving a talk titled "The development of word-final stops...

Muhammad Rehan | The development of word-final stops in Hittite

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

We will be meeting for Week 7 on Monday, November 10 between 6–8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh This week, we will have two presentations: Jahnavi Narkar from Linguistics, whose talk will be titled "Reverse-engineering PIE stops". Muhammad Rehan will be giving a talk titled "The development of word-final stops...

John Clayton | New Encoding Protocols for Hittite Transliteration and their Applications

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

PIES Grad Sem will meet for Week 8 on Monday, November 17 between 6-8pm in Dodd 248 and on zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh This week, we will start Week 1/2 of practice talks for AnatoLinks and EHSP: John Clayton will give a talk titled "New Encoding Protocols for Hittite Transliteration and their Applications". He...

John Clayton | The Chronology of Indo-European */wr/ > */rw/ Metathesis

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

PIES Grad Sem will meet for Week 8 on Monday, November 17 between 6-8pm in Dodd 248 and on zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh This week, we will start Week 1/2 of practice talks for AnatoLinks and EHSP: John Clayton will give a talk titled "New Encoding Protocols for Hittite Transliteration and their Applications". He...